Dear all,
I tried the simple suggestion from Paul first.
If you need to uncompress the delivered zip-files into Programs C:\Program Files you must, on Windows 11 at least, have administrator rights. I put the uncompressed files here because the new version of Lilypond is 64-bit versions as a folder “lilypond-2.24.0-mingw-x86_64”. This is not the place where Frescobaldi gets installed, at least not on my computer, because I believe, it’s still a 32-bit application. By default, it therefore, gets installed in C:\Program Files (x86).
To make a short, at first it worked until I started to “play around” with the installation to see exactly when and why the error messages occurred before. Then after some hassle and trial and error and many re-starts of the computer, I got it running again.
This is not a full installation investigation but there are a few things I believe are important or even mandatory:
- When the zip-file is uncompressed, it seems necessary to keep the structure and names of the directories unchanged. For LP 2.24.0 it is
lilypond-2.24.0-mingw-x86_64
|_____ lilypond-2.24.0
In my test when I just copied and pasted lilypond-2.24.0 into C:\Program Files, I got the same error messages as before.
It appears necessary that Frescobaldi is installed in the same directory as Lilypond. In my case, I had to specifically select C:\Program Files instead of the default installation directory C:\Program Files (x86).
- The handbook is very misleading as it states ( https://lilypond.org/doc/v2.23/Documentation/learning/graphical-setup-under-windows)
“Place the resulting directory lilypond-x.y.z-mingw-x86_64 in a permanent location; the actual folder doesn’t matter; you just need to put it somewhere you won’t move it afterwards. For example, you could choose your home folder.”
With the experience of today and my problems, this seems to be completely wrong and should be updated.
Thanks for the support.
BR
Tommy
From: Paul Hodges <pwh@cassland.org>
Sent: Tuesday, February 7, 2023 5:45 PM
To: tommy_strandberg@web.de; lilypond-user@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Installation of Lilypond 2.24.0 on a Windows 11 computer
What directory have you unpacked the LilyPond directory to? I have put it into C:\Program Files (which is where Frescobaldi also gets installed) and I have no such problem.
It may be that if you have LilyPond and Frescobaldi in different places, then something may not get the permissions it expects, but that's just a hunch.
Paul
From: <tommy_strandberg@web.de>
To: <lilypond-user@gnu.org>
Sent: 07/02/2023 16:00
Subject: Installation of Lilypond 2.24.0 on a Windows 11 computer
Hi,
I’m a little annoyed over problems in getting Lilypond 2.24.0 properly running on my computer. My previous installation was Lilypond 2.22.2 together with Frescobaldi 3.2. Everything worked fine and the main reason for switching to 2.24 was new features making score-writing simpler.
Now, Lilypond 2.22.2was installed using a Windows installer. For Lilypond 2.24.0 and above, there appears to be no installer anymore or, at least, I’ve not found any anywhere. Instead, the handbook explains how to “install” the new version by uncompress them on a suitable place on your computer and link them to Frescobaldi under Preferences. This I’ve done without problem and in principle Lilypond 2.24.0 works including the new features. But when compiling a score, I now get error messages “Fontconfig error: No writable cache directories”